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MANILA, Dec 9 (Reuters) - Filipinos jumped from their seats and watched in horror as Manny Pacquiao fell face first to the canvas after being knocked out by Mexican Juan Manuel Marquez in Las Vegas. Cinemas, hotels, public parks and even army bases across the Philippines fell silent on Sunday as Pacquiao, the only boxer to win world titles in eight weight divisions, tasted his second straight defeat this year. "I'm so shocked, I can't believe it when Manny was ahead on points," barber Pedro Varela told Reuters after watching the fight at a cinema in a Manila shopping mall.

Drive by Lawrence and Kilpatrick avenues and you'll pass a 10-foot-wide sign that screams in red all-caps lettering: "FRIED CHICKEN. " This, I tell you, jolts your attention to cold-sweated alertness. That's how Joy & James Cafe first compelled me to step through its doors, on nothing more than a crispy promise. There was no inclination of what else the restaurant served, other than a fresh coat of yellow paint on its walls and foreign soap opera on TV. Until I scanned the counter menu and saw pancit bihon guisado, daing na bangus and other unfamiliar strings of hard consonants did I realize — this is Albany Park, Chicago's Filipino greasy spoon epicenter.

Two other great Filipino options on the Cheap Eater's radar that we previously visited: Uncle Mike's Place The pied piper of Filipino breakfasts in Chicago is a Polish-Ukrainian man named Mike Grajewski. Married to a woman from the Philippines, Grajewski has found a niche at Uncle Mike's Place by serving traditional Filipino breakfasts. These include longanisa, the sweet, garlicky, anise-spiced pork sausage link with a lipstick red color. It's accompanied with fried eggs and served over garlic-fried rice.

Most of the veterans have died or are too sick or fragile to travel to a memorial service Sunday in Maywood meant to honor their sacrifices in the infamous Bataan Death March. And yet, at a time when many veterans groups struggle, organizers still expect their biggest turnout ever for what has been an annual event in the near west suburb for the past 70 years. In 1941, Maywood sent 89 men to be part of Company B in the 192nd Tank Battalion. Fewer than half of those soldiers came back when World War II ended.

(Corrects name of Philippine pastor) MANILA, May 19 (Reuters) - Conservative Christian groups in the Philippines on Saturday marched near a shopping mall to demand the cancellation of Lady Gaga's two concerts next week, saying her songs carried "demonic" undertones. The protests in the heavily Catholic Philippines followed a decision this week by authorities in Indonesia, a secular state but with the world's largest Muslim population, to refuse her a permit to perform in Jakarta next month.

(Repeats item filed earlier, no changes to text) By Patrick Johnston SINGAPORE, May 15 (Reuters) - The success of Manny Pacquiao is delivering a knockout blow to Filipino dreams of a first Olympic gold medal, with young boxers fast-tracking to the professional ranks in a desperate bid to escape poverty and emulate their hero. Manny Pinol, a former governor of North Cotabato and current manager of boxers through his Braveheart Boxing stable, says the success of the eight-weight world champion is hindering the amateur Olympic program at home.

NEW YORK (Reuters) - At age 40, Arnel Pineda lived every wannabe rock star's dream, middle-aged fan's fantasy and even one poor country's hope for financial success. A little more than five years ago, as videos of Pineda performing Journey cover tunes played on YouTube, he sat at home in the Philippines on the verge of giving up his dream of a singing and songwriting career. But those YouTube clips eventually earned Pineda an audition for rock band Journey, whose hits of the 1980s include "Who's Crying Now" and "Open Arms," and he went on to become their lead singer in an unlikely career trajectory that is now part of Journey lore.